Hermione has designed a new potion and invites Severus to help her brew it, but two such interesting personalities had to clash at some point. The results may be more explosive than they ever imagined. Oneshot, Alt. Ending included.

"Oh,
shut up!" Hermione said crossly. "How dare she think I'd
participate in this nymphomaniacal romp in the middle of a classroom!
I have standards!"

"I
suppose it is true, that Hermione Granger will do anything to get her
grade," Severus delicately insinuated, trying to lever himself up
without slipping in the pink potion. "Would you mind, Miss
Granger?"

Hermione
pushed him back down, glaring at him thunderously as sludge squelched
down her cheek. She irritably summoned her wand. With a wave of
her hand, the pink disappeared, leaving the classroom and its
inhabitants pristinely clean to the naked eye. "First of all,"
she began, in full lecture mode, "you are no longer my professor.
I cannot get a grade from you, so your insinuations are not only
vulgar, but also improperly applied. And secondly, I wouldn't
cavort with you for a million galleons!"

Severus
gave her a contemptuous once-over from his position beneath her.
"For a million galleons I could buy much prettier girls than you,
Hermione."

"You
are such an unmitigated… git!"

"And
yet you are still sitting on top of me."

Hermione
blushed faintly, "I refuse to dignify that comment with a reply."

"Well,
as long as you're there and we are most definitely not going to
have sex, I might as well enjoy the situation as best I can. It
isn't everyday a Potions Mistress throws herself at me with
unbridled passion, even an inferior Potions Mistress."

Her
eyes flashing with fire, Hermione stood up quickly and aimed a kick
at his prone body. He grunted in paint, but continued to smirk. "I
did not!"

"I'll
bet I could repeat that statement, word for word, under veritaserum,"
Severus said, ideas beginning to blossom in his mind.

"I'm
going to kill you," she said flatly, reaching for her wand. Harry
had just taught her this nasty hex…

"Unless
you plan on crushing me to death-," he began, but was cut off as
she maneuvered her wand into position. As fast as lightning, he
knocked her feet back out from under her, catching her wand hand as
she fell almost on top of him. He rolled them over and touched his
mouth gently to her shocked lips.

To
the surprise of both parties, she melted into him and he latched onto
her. Like Gruvis Ichor and mermens tears, when heated they combined
with seamless perfection. When they separated, breathing harshly,
there was a moment of supreme suspicion on both sides before Hermione
cast a locking charm and lunged at Severus. Catching her was no
hardship, but maneuvering her into his chambers took a great deal of
effort.

Two hours later
Hermione remembered to floo Ginny's gift to the Potter residence.
She returned to the rumpled bed and nudged her greasy-haired lover.
"I know you added that piece of Ashwinder shell on purpose,
Severus."

"In my defense, I
recognized you were trying to create a love potion and was trying to
protect myself," he replied languorously.

Hermione stared at him
in disbelief. "What?"

"Please, you
Gryffindors are so obvious. You wanted me to inhale the fumes and
throw myself at you, letting you take advantage of my altered state
to divest me of my honor," he declared, with just the right amount
of offended dignity.

"That is
ridiculous!"

"Rake."

"Severus, you can't
honestly believe that."

"Debaucher!"

"Severus!"

"Libertine," he
added with a smirk.

She scowled at him,
before throwing a leg over his stomach to face him properly. His
dressing gown rode up nicely on her thighs and the neck gaped
invitingly. "If I had wanted to ravish you, I could have had you
at any time."

"I do not sell my
virtue so cheaply," he replied, spoiling the cool rejoinder by
drawing heated patterns over her bare hips.

"I think you knew
that potion needed to be in an iron cauldron," Hermione said,
gazing suspiciously down into his black eyes. This distracted her
nicely from what his hands were doing, so Severus stared her down.
"And I think you made one fatal mistake."

"Oh really?" he
asked, untying the silk belt of the dressing gown.

"That wasn't a
love potion."

Severus'
hands froze. "Impossible, no other type of potion would use an
amoretia bark and pink rose petal base," he said shrewdly.

"That's why it's
experimental," Hermione said smugly as she bent down to press a
soft kiss against his neck. "What were you going to do?" she
whispered into his ear, "Pretend you were under the influence of
the potion tomorrow morning?"

"The plan went
something like that, yes," he replied, wondering why she hadn't
yet hexed him three ways from Sunday and then run screaming from the
room.

"You Slytherins are
too complicated; I've been trying to seduce you since day one, but
you were too busy scheming to notice," she said, obviously amused
by the whole thing.

Severus scowled
blackly at her, which would have been more intimidating if his
erection hadn't been nudging against her rear end. "?No
Gryffindor could ever be subtle enough to escape my notice."

"Exactly.
I think I was so blatant that you couldn't see the woods for the
trees, if you'll pardon the pun. I wore those low-cut blouses, the
high-heels, the pheromone perfume, I actually coifed my hair and put
on make-up before brewing!" she pointed out, her eyes laughing
gently at the whole situation.

"I
fail to see anything amusing about this situation," he said
sullenly.

"I'm
not surprised…"

There
was a long pause, during which Severus sulked and Hermione wondered
whether this was such a good idea. The whole situation was becoming
uncomfortable and she would have to work with this man in the future.
Maybe it hadn't been one of her better decisions, sleeping with
him. She thought about long fingers sweeping up her thighs, ghostly
kisses feathering over her stomach, and soft strands of hair sweeping
against her face as they moved against each other.

"What
are you doing!?!"

"Sexually
assaulting you," Hermione replied calmly.

"…continue."

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